| 100% | KIERKEGAARD | 11 | Author of “Either/Or” |
| 83% | TOURNIER | 8 | Author of Friday, or, the Other Island: Michel __ |
| 83% | SIGH | 4 | Sound of either weariness or relief |
| 78% | XXX | 3 | Either of two for OK or OH |
| 77% | LIGHT | 5 | It can be the opposite of either dark or heavy |
| 77% | FANNING | 7 | Either Elle or Dakota of "I Am Sam" |
| 77% | WILSON | 6 | Either Owen or Luke of "The Royal Tenenbaums" |
| 77% | CUSACK | 6 | Either John or Joan of "Grosse Pointe Blank" |
| 77% | AFFLECK | 7 | Either Ben or Casey of "Good Will Hunting" |
| 77% | QUAID | 5 | Either Dennis or Randy of "The Long Riders" |
| 76% | CHARLES | 7 | Author Dickens or a famous prince of Wales |
| 75% | OLSEN | 5 | Either Mary-Kate or Ashley of "New York Minute" |
| 74% | JOHNRINGO | 9 | US author of novels Against the Tide and Live Free or Die |
| 73% | SOREN | 5 | Either/Or author Kierkegaard |
| 72% | LAYER | 5 | Either the top or bottom half of this puzzle, figuratively speaking |
| 72% | ROSE | 4 | Homonym for either a "flower" or "shade of color" |
| 72% | ONE | 3 | Word on either side of -to-, -by- or -on- |
| 71% | NICHOLS | 7 | Peter —, author of 1969 stage play The National Health, or Nurse Norton's Affair |
| 71% | POMERANIAN | 10 | Either one of Queen Charlotte's dogs, Phoebe or Mercury, e.g. |
| 69% | PUN | 3 | Either of the (real) bar names "Wish You Were Beer" or "Pour Judgment" |
| 69% | OBAMA | 5 | Either of two authors of 2020s autobio best-sellers |
| 69% | DOVE | 4 | Brand of bars (of either ice cream or soap) |
| 68% | IONS | 4 | A group of atoms that possess either a positive or negative charge |
| 68% | BOOLEAN | 7 | Kind of logic in which all values are either true or false |
| 66% | PASTA | 5 | Cheese ___, a staple of Italian cuisine that can either be baked or boiled |
| 66% | OINK | 4 | It comes out of a pen, either with or without its first letter |
| 66% | BAYONET | 7 | “It’s either that or meet the business end of a ___” (“Hamilton” lyric) |
| 66% | MEAT | 4 | "___ eaten without either mirth or music is ill of digestion": Sir Walter Scott |
| 65% | CAKE | 4 | Word that can follow either half of 17-, 25-, 37-, 52- or 62-Across |
| 65% | MIRIAM | 6 | O. Henry Award-winning Truman Capote story, or either of its main female characters |